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USE OF STIMULANTS IN CENTRAL AFRICA.

As to the liquor question, there is no doubt that many men out here ruin their health by excessive drinking; but I think that many others, chiefly missionaries, ruin theirs by a mistaken and exaggerated abstinence.

October 30, 1887

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